Statement by Mark Dimondstein President, APWU on USPS’s Lowering of Service Standards This Week Resulting in the Delay of Mail for All Customers

Posted on January 5, 2015January 5, 2015 by 21cpw

Where is it? Why hasn’t it arrived? For Immediate Release 01/05/2015 – Where is it? Why hasn’t it arrived? Beginning this week, these questions will be asked by millions of Americans who will wonder why their prescription drugs, their church bulletin, their paycheck, and other important correspondence haven’t been delivered. The lowering of service standards…

PRC Releases Fiscal Year 2014 Annual Report

Posted on January 5, 2015January 5, 2015 by 21cpw

Press Release – January 5, 2015 Washington, DC- Today the Postal Regulatory Commission issued its 2014 Annual Report to the President and Congress. It describes Commission activities of the last fiscal year and the extent to which regulations are achieving the objectives set forth by the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006. These objectives,…

Red letter day: The USPS poised to deliver ‘frank appraisal’ of its status

Posted on January 5, 2015January 5, 2015 by 21cpw

By Jennifer Harper – Monday, January 5, 2015 Now that the holiday rush is over, change is afoot in the nation’s mail. On Tuesday, outgoing Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, who has led the oft-challenged U.S. Postal Service for four years, heads to the National Press Club for some candid talk about the future of an…

USPS OIG Blog: What do you think was the top postal story of 2014?

Posted on January 5, 2015January 5, 2015 by 21cpw

The year 2014 was certainly historic on the postal and logistics front. Alibaba entered the U.S. market with a bang, setting a record with the largest ever U.S. initial public offering. For the first time ever, non-mail revenues exceeded mail revenues for postal administrations around the world. Shippers braced for the full effect of dimensional…

USPS OIG White Paper: Flexible HR Strategies to Help the Postal Service

Posted on January 5, 2015January 5, 2015 by 21cpw

RARC-WP-15-003 – 01/05/2015 Increasingly, companies large and small are moving toward flexible workforce policies, which allow employees, among other things, to adjust their work schedules to their personal lives as much as possible. In general, the strategic value of such policies is that they help employees establish a healthy work-life balance, which can yield benefits…

Opinion: The wrong fix for the U.S. Postal Service

Posted on January 5, 2015January 5, 2015 by 21cpw

Re:“U.S. Postal Service needs major fix,” Dec. 25 editorial. By Fredric Rolando – January 4, 2015 Your editorial had the headline right, but not the remedy. In fact, you back legislation (the Carper-Coburn bill) that would worsen the U.S. Postal Service’s financial situation. To your credit, you note that the Postal Service runs on earned…